Long awaited entry
I wanted to blog about my month long vacation since I got back to St. Louis, but was bogged down by jet-lag and just plain old laziness. Oh, and not to forget that my computer was quite sick - losing it's memory and etc...

The vacation back home in Malaysia was fantabulous. It coincided with Pearly's as well as my brother Benjamin's birthday. Pearly's birthday was fun, and we were just looking for another excuse to go out partying. We met up with couple of primary school friends, Siau Wei and Siew Siew, and Jee Tung who's in Singapore managed to join us too. And of course we have the indispensable Adrian, and also couple of friends from high school - Faith, Kenji, Eric Low, Pooi Tyng and Jin Keng. Also, there're a whole gang of Pearly's friend that are totally fun to hang out with: Celynna, Danny, Joey, and the one and only Mr. Eric Wong. *cheers my friends*

What struck me as a surprise is that lots of my friends from different circles seem to know each other, I suppose because they all work in the same field: financial services. Most of the people that I know are either in Price Waterhouse Cooper or Ernst & Young or Citibank... I guess that's why. It felt like such a small world. :)

I also get to spent some quality (although not quantity, dang it) time with Faidz. Too bad his girlfriend came back from UK the same time as I did, so he really didn't have much time for me. Hehe. I always enjoy chatting with him, be it serious topic or just everyday chit chat.

SW, Pearly and I spent A LOT of time together walking around town. Seeing that I haven't been home in years, they took me to Bukit Bintang and Central Market for a tour. Or we'll hang out at Mid-Valley mall, or at Bangsar, getting our eyebrows threaded, or we'll be out partying. SW called it: the Yuppies lifestyle. Gotta love it.

ps. Elaine: you should definitely try eyebrow threading when you go home in May. I'll give you the directions. It's right above Haagen Daz in the heart of Bangsar.

Gawd I miss my friends back in Malaysia.

So will I ever move back there one day? I don't know. I must say, distance really does make the heart grow fonder. I'll probably never appreciate my friends the way I did this trip back. Maybe being abroad is a good thing after all. Maybe it's all to early to tell.

"Keh-Leng-Kia" (For you Hokkien readers)
It's been a mystery on Merrick Drive since the trees and flowers started blooming. "What is that mysterious smell? It smells like ... like ... keh-leng-kia!" Such has been the odor in front of our townhouse, and Mike and I have been scratching our heads furiously trying to figure out where the smell comes from.

As it turns out, the keh-leng-kia smell emanates from the big tree planted directly in front of our townhouse. Thanks to David Costa (a colleague at work), I now believe it is a white dogwood tree (Fun Fact: a dogwood is also a flower, and the official flower of Virginia for that matter -- this I learned while watching "The American President"). I've taken some pictures of the tree and its flowers up-close, but we'll have to wait for Angeline to post them before you'll get to see what it looks like.

So if I show up one day smelling curiously like a keh-leng-kia, you can rest assure that it is much attributed to the dogwood in front of my townhouse. And for those of you in the market for a new perfume, here's a tip: Stay away from dogwood scents!!

No comments
So, I just found out that the commenting system that 4aunties.net uses, which is netcomments, will be down till saturday. Jonty (who's the genius architect behind all this) will be moving servers. More information can be found at www.electrichamster.net/netcomments. If you all have any comments in the mean time, feel free to email them to me.

Updated April 21st: Saturday came and went, and the link still shows "commenting temporarily offline". I hopped over to netcomments' site just to check and see what happened. Apparently, the commenting system will continue to be unavailable till tuesday/wednesday. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that by mid-week it'll be up and running again.

Back... for now.
I'm back on U.S. ground. Lots of things to write, but I won't go into the details now. My computer is still at the shop (i.e. in my co-worker's office) because lightning hit and kill the power supply and a RAM chip a month and a half ago. *Sigh*.

Gotta get use to waking up early again starting tomorrow... it's back to work work work once again. Damn it. I got so used to being the princess at home. I could use more of that lifestyle, but that'll mean I have to sit and rot my life away. Hm, maybe a life with work & play is not such a bad idea after all.

Am I not making sense? Pardon me. My brain is still on vacation.

Fruz Nation!
Argh!!! So frus so frus so frustrated! *pulls hair* Just typed out a whole post and my stupid server decided to go down. Damnit! Sorry, this is the only alternate place i can vent. $#@%^&!()# *waves fist at server*

Pinging pearlytan.com with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from [IP masked out]: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Just so my luck. Grrr....
Ok...feel much better now, i'll try one last time time then i'll hit the sack. Hmph!